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Uncle Joaquim's Tales
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Uncle Joaquim's Tales brings together a series of nineteenth-century Portuguese stories framed around the voice of Tio Joaquim, an old rural storyteller whose memories, warnings, and moral reflections illuminate the lives of villagers, laborers, widows, children, skeptics, neighbors, and forgotten souls.
With tenderness, irony, and a deep sympathy for ordinary people, Rodrigo Paganino creates a literary world in which every small event - a quarrel over a hen, a lawsuit, a family portrait, a forbidden temptation, a village Mass, or the fate of a lonely cemetery keeper - becomes a window into conscience, faith, pride, poverty, memory, and compassion.
First published in the nineteenth century, this collection stands at the crossroads of oral tradition, rural realism, Christian moral reflection, and early Portuguese short fiction. This English edition preserves the warmth and simplicity of the original while making Paganino's humane and deeply observant storytelling accessible to modern readers.
Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Portuguese literature in translation, moral tales, village fiction, and rediscovered classics.
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